1.What is Mail Exchanger (MX) Resource Record?

The mail exchanger (MX) resource record provides routing for messages to mail servers and backup servers. The mail MX resource record provides information on which mail servers processes e-mail for the particular domain name. E-mail applications therefore mostly utilize MX resource records. A mail exchanger (MX) resource record has the following parameters:

Priority Mail server The mail exchanger (MX) resource record enables the DNS server to work with e-mail addresses where no specific mail server is defined. A DNS domain can have multiple MX records. MX resource records can therefore also be used to provide failover to different mail servers when the primary server specified is unavailable. In this case, a server preference value is added to indicate the priority of a server in the list. Lower server preference values specify higher preference.

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The mail exchange (MX) resource record specifies a mail exchange server for a DNS domain name. A mail exchange server is a host that will either process or forward mail for the DNS domain name. Processing the mail means either delivering it to the addressee or passing it to a different type of mail transport. Forwarding the mail means sending it to its final destination server, sending it using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to another mail exchange server that is closer to the final destination, or queuing it for a specified amount of time.

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An MX record or Mail exchanger record is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS) specifying how Internet e-mail should be routed. MX records point to the servers that should receive an e-mail, and their priority relative to each other.